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Valuation Seminar

This is a three-day valuation seminar that I teach once a year at the Stern School of Business in New York. The most recent version was run from July 20, 2015 to July 22, 2015, and the details are below.

 

Pre-seminar work: There is no required pre-reading for the class. If you do want to get a jump on the class, check out this pre-seminar webpage.

To follow the seminar: You will see the link to the webcast in the first column, the contents for the session in the second column, additional files in the third and in-practice webcasts on specific estimation challenges (estimating risk free rates, betas, equity risk premiums) in the last one.

After you finish the seminar: Check out this post-seminar webpage. It contains the excel spreadsheets with all the valuations that we did in class, readings to exhaust you and more fun stuff!!

Project: You will be valuing a company, as your project for the class. You can pick any company, public or private, but if you do pick a private company, please make sure that you can get the financial data you need for your company. You can get the project description by clicking here.

Lecture Notes/Textbook: The lecture notes for this class can be obtained by clicking here. If you feel the urge to supplement these notes with a book or books, you have the following choices: Investment Valuation (3rd Edition), Damodaran on Valuation (2nd Edition), The Dark Side of Valuation (2nd Edition) and The Little Book of Valuation (1st Edition). You can find out more about these books by clicking here.

Session

Topic

Additional files

In-practice webcasts

Day 1

Morning Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

 

Lecture Notes: Pg 1-17

Introduction to valuation

Valuation approaches

Amgen ,Tata Motors & Henkel

Risk free rate
Equity Risk premiums

Valuations

  1. Amgen valuation
  2. Tata Motors valuation
  3. Henkel valuation

 

 

  1. Bias and Preconceptions; The Biggest Challenge to Valuation

     


Day 1

Afternoon Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

 

Lecture Notes: Pg 18-58

Riskfree Rates
Equity Risk Premiums

Beta

Cash flows & growth rates

 

 

Datasets

  1. Implied ERP
  2. Sector average betas
  3. Effective tax rates
  4. Cost of capital by sector


  1. Risk free rate
  2. Implied ERP
  3. Bottom up Beta
  4. Lease converter
  5. Debt & Cost of Debt
  6. R&D converter

Day 2

Morning Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

 

 

Lecture Notes: Pg 59-87

- Valuing cash, cross holdings & other assets
- Valuing control and synergy
- Valuing intangibles

Datasets
  1. Excess Returns by sector
  2. Historical growth rates

 

 

  1. ROIC estimator
  2. Terminal Value Check

 

Day 2

Afternoon Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

 

 

Lecture Notes: Pg 88 - 129

Valuing young companies
Valuing mature companies in transition
Valuing declining & distressed companies
Valuing commodity companies
Valuing financial service companies

Datasets
  1. Variances in firm & equity value by sector

 

  1. Company valuation spreadsheet (non-financial service)
  2. Bank valuation spreadsheet
  3. Valuing Employee Options

Day 3

Morning Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

 

 

Lecture Notes: 130-181

Valuing Private Companies
Numbers and Narratives

Valuation as a craft

 

 

 

  1.  Valuing a company
  2. Valuing equity in a distressed company as an option

Day 3

Afternoon Session

- Streaming Video

- Video download

Lecture Notes 182-End

The value of being good (ESG deconstructed)

Pricing an asset/business

  1. Earnings multiples
  2. Book value multiples
  3. Revenue multiples
  4. Market regressions
  1. EV. Firm and Equity Value
  2. Multiples & Fundamentals